# Rob Go

> Rob Go is a seed investor at NextView Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NextView Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nextview-ventures)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robgo
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/robgo
- Website: http://robgo.org
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/robert.go

Rob Go is a seed investor at NextView Ventures in Boston focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Rob is a cofounder of NextView Ventures and has dedicated his career as an investor and operator to internet-enabled innovation. He tries to spend as much time as possible working with entrepreneurs and investing in startups that solve important problems for everyday people. Previously, Rob was a venture capitalist at Spark Capital, a leadingventure firm focused on the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. In this role, he was deeply involved in launching and coordinating Start@Spark, a seed stage investment program targeted at early- stage companies in the New York and Boston areas. Before joining Spark Capital, Rob held product roles at Ebay, and was the North America Business Unit owner for "Finding". In this role, he helped to launch over 20 products that significantly enhanced Ebay's search, browse, and merchandising capabilities.Rob began his career at The Parthenon Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm. He was a member of the firm's Private Equity practice, and focused on the consumer and retail industries. Additionally, he has held product management roles at Fidelity Investments, BzzAgent, and helped to found Letslink.jp, one of the first social networking sites outside of the United States. Rob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University. He is also a founding member of Highrock Church in Brookline, MA and serves on the organization's board. He lives in Arlington, MA with his wife and daughter.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 22% |
| Legal Tech | 4 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 15% |
| Business Intelligence | 4 | 15% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 26% |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 52% |
| France | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Handspring Health | Handspring is redesigning the family mental healthcare experience from the ground up. Our omnichannel care delivery model tightly integrates different modalities of care, including in-person, digital and devices. Through the use of technology, health plan partnerships, and highly trained clinicians. Handspring Health aims to make quality mentalhealthcare more accessible to all families. | $19M | Series B | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Handspring Health | Handspring is redesigning the family mental healthcare experience from the ground up. Our omnichannel care delivery model tightly integrates different modalities of care, including in-person, digital and devices. Through the use of technology, health plan partnerships, and highly trained clinicians. Handspring Health aims to make quality mentalhealthcare more accessible to all families. | $12M | Series A | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Theo Ai | THEO AI operates as a legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal dispute. | $4.2M | Seed | May 19, 2025 |  |
| Theo Ai | THEO AI operates as a legal prediction engine to forecast the outcome of legal dispute. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Patented.ai | Building the world's first infringement detector. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| LLM Shield | Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Infringements | Monitor your patents and get instant alerts on potential infringements. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Invalidate | IPR-tested prior art search. The ultimate patent invalidation tool. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Reasoner | Problems solved: - Multi-hop reasoning - Compound system data portability - Sub-second, multi-thousand data point synthesization - Multi-domain, multi-topic, multi-subject simultaneous analysis - Lossless recall - Zero hallucinations - And many, many more...Built. In Production. (Currently the reasoning engine powering Patented.ai to solve thehardest problems in litigation.) |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Setpoint.io | Setpoint.io develops a platform purpose-built for modern real estate transactions. | $43M | Series A | Dec 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [nvp capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvpcap) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [nvp capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newark-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About NextView Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

NextView Ventures is a high-conviction, hands-on seed VC with a thematic investing focus. NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence to shape a future of collective prosperity.

5 contacts available at NextView Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Beisel | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-beisel |
| Rob Go | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-go |
| Stephanie Palmeri | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steph-palmeri |
| Lee Hower | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-hower |
| Melody Koh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melody-koh |

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## FAQ

### What does Rob Go invest in?

Rob Go invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Rob Go last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rob Go closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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